How would our modern world feel if we were to experience the civilian constraints of a total war? Or rather, suppose there was somehow a total war which did not go nuclear and devastated the world economy and shipping and air trade, reducing the amount of supplies we could import.
How would we ration food, civilian items, and luxury today? Would the internet and television be censored in the same way we taught everyone "loose lips sink ships"? Would we use "point cards" similar to credit cards to ensure every person can only buy an supply of food rich or poor.
The US is so stupidly rich at this point that it would take a nuclear war or Yellowstone erupting for that to be an issue.
>>29938024
welfare and foodstamp queens in cities riot and burn everything to the ground if you tried to ration anything.
Farm owners cattle owners etc. would likely fight back when their farms suddenly no longer belong to them and their assets either seized or no longer paid for.
Jobs are lost on a major scale.
ALOT of people die one way or the other, we're all fucked by then anyway...
>>29938024
>>29938299
>rich or poor
oh and already mentioning the lower class either eats each other, loots to survive, no doubt the upper class will easily be able to pay to take care of themselves...
>>29938024
Californians enthusiastically embraced water rationing according to the radio a few months ago.
>>29938642
Well, it's something we have to do...or die.
So best to ration then. Really despite the fact we can farm anything in SoCal...most of it is still a desert and we should treat it as such and adopt Arizona/New Mexico like style homes and unless your growing food or flowers for yourself which you can splurge on in the back yard, the front yard should be water less, desert plants or just be vary sparing with the vegetation so people can have their pretty flowers, bushes and trees but have no grass.
Y'all know rationing was put in place to keep the economy in check, right? Basically it kept the prices down and War Bonds soaked up the excess wealth.
Also, FDR was big on the whole "shared sacrifice" thing, which is why you had lights-out drills in the Midwest.
>>29938642
Yeah, gotta make sure the people in SoCal can keep their swimming pools full.
>>29939609
Never understood why the fuck the LAl tried to terraform the desert since the 1900s but whatever.
>>29938024
And from what I can tell from rationing now, I think the government adopted the credit card system.
>>29939657
>Y'all know rationing was put in place to keep the economy in check, right? Basically it kept the prices down
If rationing was good for the economy, why didn't we keep doing it.
>>29939609
You do realize that residential water use is less than 25% of all water use in CA, right?
And that only certain farms are allowed to purchase water from the State below cost, right?
And that average rainfall in the last few years has been low, but not unprecedentedly low, right?
>>29942313
Because peeps got tired of buying cars to get some replacement tires
>>29938024
In all likelihood you would have a gradual phase-in of legislation.
The PATRIOT act was a good start, and indicates that Americans are willing to sacrifice a chunk of freedom if under threat. Against say a major threat (existential, like the Soviets were) the people could be driven to accept more surveillance and censorship. This is ESPECIALLY true if the surveillance was un observed, like keystroke tracking, web admin, etc.
Food would be... Tricky. A good, simple start would be to ban water bottles. People already have a good substitute, and this saves money and plastic (money to tax, plastic for whatever, use the factories to make bottles for the troops, etc.).
Next you could ration some of the more difficult pre-pared foods. Those single serving microwave MAC and cheese bowls? Probably gone. Boxed mac and cheese may exist, but singles would be gone (less material efficient to do singles).
We have a fair surplus of dairy and grain, we could presumably reign in agriculture exports. People fail to realize all too often that America's agriculture capacity is god-tier, with a varied enough climate we can grow basically anything, and we have enough land we can make a lot of it. I can't forseen food becoming rationed more than "you cannot just buy and microwave all your meals anymore", even if the poorest get to eat 10 ears of corn a day instead.
USA is an oil exporter now. We would likely see surge investment into domestic alt-energy, particularly distributed infrastructure (personal solar panels, nat gas lines, etc). In a pinch we still have fucktons of coal, though restoring old coal plants takes time.
Utility-provided Kilowatts could be restricted to daytime hours. This is a common tactic in the third world, and many poorer people are used to unplugging AC and stuff at night anyway. If you want more power, you make it via solar or wind.
The biggest freezes would likely be in manufactured goods.
It'll be alot more chaotic that's for sure
I imagine alot of looting when they announce the implementation
>>29942330
Yeah CA is fucking retarded. The entire water problem is just mismanagement.
1. Put price system in place so supply and demand can work.
2. Fire the retards who are responsible for draining lake Mead etc and letting it get to this point in the first place.
Boom. You're done. Water crisis fixed.
>>29942591
You forgot about adding more water storage. California has doubled in population since the last dam/reservoir was built.
